Dreaming in Code

I greatly enjoyed The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem, which covers 9 stories of crises and how leaders approached them. The Man Who Discovered Quality by Andrea Gabor is an interesting story of W. Edwards Deming, the American who revolutionized post-WWII Japanese manufacturing with statistical approaches to reducing variance. Issac Newton by James Gleick conveys what it was like for Newton to essentially invent modern physical science in a pre-scientific world. Dreaming In Code by Scott Rosenberg is a good counterpoint to inspiring tech origin stories: legendary coders coming together to build an amazing product and… basically failing.

"Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg

"Dreaming in code" by Scott Rosenberg It tells the story of a software team which has everything, money, talent, time... but doesn't find how to materialize their idea. I've kept the warning in mind ever since http://www.dreamingincode.com/

Dreaming In Code by Scott Rosenberg has some relatable war stories.

If you like thrillers with a geeky edge to them, you might like Zero Sum Game by S.L Huang. Some review I read described the protagonist of the story as "the geek's Jack Reacher". Pretty good analogy, IMO. If you want non-fiction, maybe try Dreaming In Code. Or if you haven't read it before, how about *The Soul of a New Machine"?

> Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg I also really enjoyed this book. It was a bitter story of an idealistic Open Source project failing miserably.

Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. As a programmer of 30 years I have taken more quotes and found more common ground with this book than any other. Here's a small extract that caught my attention: "In order to build something, you have to have a blueprint. And we don't always have one. Then you hit unexpected problems. It's hard to know how long something is going to take until you know for sure you can build it."

Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg, Coder's At Work by Peter Siebel

<em>Dreaming in Code</em> Chandler Project.

Dreaming in code is a book about the startup life of the Chandler project.

* The Pragmatic Programmer * Becoming a Technical Leader * In Search of Stupidity * Hackers & Painters * Blockbusters * Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity * The Best Software Writing I * Behind Closed Doors * Managing Humans * The Mythical Man-Month * Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams * The Non-Designers Design Book * Founders at Work * Good to Great * Dreaming in Code * The Art of the Start * Maverick * The Design of Everyday Things * The Art of Project Management * The Art of Innovation